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U-T Austin E-Textbook Pilot
Inside Higher Ed reports on the upcoming two-year pilot program at the University of Texas at Austin which will switch select classes to e-textbooks only. Partnering with John Wiley & Sons, the university will foot the bill for 1,000 enrolled students who will have the choice to access their textbooks online through Wiley Plus or download their e-books onto their computers. This innovative experiment will test student and faculty preferences for e-textbooks and determine the scalability of future deployments.
“This pilot aims to improve student outcomes, provide students with equity of access to the most current materials and increase faculty satisfaction and efficiency while respecting faculty independence and freedom of choice in the selection of course materials,” Bonnie Lieberman, Wiley’s senior vice president and general manager for higher education, said in a statement released Monday. “Our primary aim is to improve learning and teaching outcomes while significantly lowering the costs of learning materials for students.”
